November

2nd

Day of the Dead

Mexicanholiday celebrated throughout
Mexico, and acknowledged around the
world in other cultures.

November

Tradition
The holiday focuses on gatherings with
family to pray and remember friends
and family members who have died,
and help support their spiritual journey.

Traditions include building private

altars called ofrendas, honoring the
deceased using sugar skulls,
marigolds, and the favorite foods and
beverages of the departed, and
visiting graves with these as gifts.
Visitors also leave possessions of the
deceased at the graves.

Altars

Pan de muerto
Type of sweet rolltraditionally baked
inMexicoduring the day of the
dead(Da de Muertos)
It is a sweetened soft bread, often
decorated with bone-shaped
phalanges pieces.

La Calavera Catrina

La Calavera Catrina
Is a zincetchingby famous Mexican
printmaker, cartoon illustrator and
lithographerJos Guadalupe Posada.

La muerte es democrtica, ya que a fin de cuentas, gera,

morena, rica o pobre, toda la gente acaba siendo calavera
- Jos Guadalupe Posada

The image
represents a
female skeleton
dressed only in a
hat befitting the
upper class outfit
of a European of
her time.

TEAM
Garcia Quintero Iliana
Cruz Ruezgas Leydy